Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 13, 2026

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‘Synodal Shepherds’ Attack the Sheep (The Catholic Thing): “What the Church has only recently become accustomed to is attacks upon her teaching coming from some of her shepherds, especially from the never-ending pronouncements emanating from the office of the Synod of Bishops.

A Place to Dream at Our Lady of Hungary (Today’s Catholic): “When Francisca Flores first walked into the space that is now the library at Our Lady of Hungary Catholic School, it wasn’t a place for students to read or gather. It was a storage room.”

Cardinal Müller: Synod’s homosexuality report leads to ‘heretical relativization’ of marriage (Per Mariam): “Cardinal Gerhard Müller has issued a blistering critique of the latest study group report from the Synod on Synodality and its platforming of anti-Catholic, pro-homosexual ideology.”

Christopher Hale Is Hurting The Pope, the Catholic Church, and His Soul (Junto): “You’ve probably seen [Christopher Hale] on X by now. He’s the former (unsuccessful) Democratic congressional candidate doing his best to turn Pope Leo XIV into a weapon against the right …”

A Modern Seminarian’s Dictionary, Revisited (Catholic Culture): “In recent years, the Synod of Synodality and other organizations subverting Church doctrine, like Old Man River, just keep rolling along.”

Just War 101: Catholic Teaching for a Dangerous Moment (What We Need Now – Substack): “As a bishop of the Catholic Church, and the proud son of a World War II veteran who served as a gunner on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific theater, it is important for me to discern carefully whether today is a historical moment … “

The Vatican’s ‘lavender mafia’ strikes again (Catholic Culture): “What was happening in Rome last week was the same thing that has been happening for years: Some Vatican officials quietly signaled their support for the homosexual agenda, and no one stopped them.”

LGBTQ ‘lavender graduations’ set to take place at major Christian colleges, including one with a drag show (Fox News): “Some of the country’s most prominent Catholic colleges and universities are holding separate LGBTQ-affirming graduation ceremonies this spring, including one that also plans to include a drag performance.”

In an uncertain era, students turn to Catholicism for stability (South Carolina Public Radio): “In South Carolina, where Catholicism has historically been a minority faith, the college Catholic population has more than doubled over the past several decades, now surpassing 218,000.”

Our Strange Catholic Moment (First Things): “At present, the trend in conversions shows no signs of offsetting broader decline. And yet something is stirring in the Catholic Church.”

Seven Flawed Mothers Who Triumph in Catholic Literature (Benedictine College Media & Culture): “Grace doesn’t make mothers perfect; it transforms their efforts despite, and even through, their imperfections.”

Introducing: the ‘Towards a New Aesthetics’ Series (Creating Aesthetic Cities – Substack): “We are more than a quarter of the way into the twenty-first century. Yet, our dominant aesthetic in architecture and design still belongs to a movement founded a century ago to define the twentieth.”

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